SESSION CHAIR: JAMES MORRIS
Session 1: AI Grand Challenges
SPEAKER BIO:
Dr. James H. Morris is a Professor of Computer Science and Department Head
at Carnegie Mellon. He is a native of Pittsburgh and received a Bachelor's
degree from Carnegie Mellon, an M.S. in Mangement from MIT and Ph.D. in
Computer Science from MIT. He taught at the University of California at
Berkeley where he developed some important underlying principles of
programming languages: inter-module protection and lazy evaluation. He was a
co-discoverer of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt string searching algorithm. For ten
years he worked the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he was part of the
team that developed the Alto System. He also directed the Cedar programming
environment project. From 1983 to 1988 he directed the Information
Technology Center at CMU, a joint project with IBM which developed a
prototype university computing system, Andrew. He has been the principle
investigator of two NSF projects aimed at computer-mediated communication:
EXPRES and Prep. He is a founder of the MAYA Design Group, a consulting firm
specializing in interactive product design.